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...month ago, a Pajero jeep with four men and three burka-clad women was stopped at a checkpoint in Chapri, a village with an ancient stone arch that serves as a gateway to the Pakistani tribal region. Two tribal militiamen questioned one of the passengers and was surprised that he spoke no Pashtu. He was a Yemenite. All the passengers were ordered out of the car, and the militiamen noticed that the women in the burkas were very tall; one of them wore men's sandals. They turned out to be African men, two Sudanese and a Mauritanian. Their Pakistani...
...month ago, a Pajero jeep with four men and three burka-clad women was stopped at a checkpoint in Chapri, a village with an ancient stone arch that serves as a gateway to the Pakistani tribal region. Two tribal militiamen questioned one of the passengers and was surprised that he spoke no Pashtu. He was a Yemenite. All the passengers were ordered out of the car, and the militiamen noticed that the women in the burkas were very tall; one of them wore men's sandals. They turned out to be African men, two Sudanese and a Mauritanian. Their Pakistani...
...somebody's doing searches in the system with their name and the words 'dead drop,' that's kind of a clue, huh?" Senser observes sardonically. In his spare time, Hanssen also surfed the FBI's computers for tidbits on Bill and Hilary Clinton, whose liberal politics raised his arch-conservative hackles. According to the Webster commission report, Hanssen ran more than 20 searches on the Clintons, even snooping on the Clinton's daughter, Chelsea. Hanssen even ran a search on his boss, FBI director Louis Freeh. "Had the FBI been aware of these searches, it seems likely that auditors would...
...would have been laughed at. So, too, the idea that the fierce enemy of the Oslo peace process and longtime champion of the movement to settle Israelis in the occupied lands of the West Bank and Gaza could govern in coalition with the likes of Oslo architect and arch-dove Shimon Peres. Equally outlandish, perhaps, was the idea that a man so out of step with the prevailing drift in U.S. policy to settle the Middle East conflict via a land-for-peace swap would manage to turn the White House to his way of thinking. But a week...
DIED. WILLIAM CHOLL, 81, designer of the ubiquitous wooden sandal that, in the 1970s, enjoyed U.S. sales of $30 million a year; on the Isle of Man, Britain. Son of a founder of the Dr. Scholl's company, he spotted the sandal in Germany, reshaped it to flex the arch and added a leather strap. Consumers took care of the rest...